Quote Originally Posted by Lersayil View Post
This is going entirely into speculation on my part, but its stated that an Ancient needed a measure of understanding of the thing they created by their magic. I wouldn't consider it entirely outlandish to presume that the more eccentric / useless concepts didn't even make it to the creation phase and were discarded before giving them form to test. At least in Elpis I don't recall seeing anything completely ridiculous that clearly served only as a fad.
The walking shark where we see Venat’s introduction is apparently a fad. Venat says that it was trendy for a time to make wild and crazy shark concepts including land sharks and flying sharks. Both of which passed the Elpis trials since we see the walking sharks in Akademia Anyder and there are flying sharks in our time.